Our Venmo Developer and Payouts APIs have been retired, and we are no longer able to provide access to businesses who may want to start using it. To find out more about how you can use Venmo as a payment method in your checkout experience, visit https://venmo.com/business/accept-venmo-in-stores.

For existing businesses who were granted access to the Developer or Payouts API in the past (generally prior to 2016), you will retain access to these APIs and may use them.

Users Endpoints

For more information about the fields, see below.

Current User Information

GET /me

Email, phone and balance will return non-null if the access token has proper permissions.

Permissions:

access_profile
access_email (optional)
access_phone (optional)
access_balance (optional)

Parameter	Description
access_token (required)	An authorized user's access token

https://api.venmo.com/v1/me?access_token=<access_token>

User Information

GET /users/:user_id

Retrieves information about a single user

Permissions:

access_profile

Parameter	Description
access_token (required)	An authorized user's access token

https://api.venmo.com/v1/users/:user_id?access_token=<access_token>

User's Friends

GET /users/:user_id/friends

Retrieves a user's friends

Permissions:

access_friends

Parameter	Description
access_token (required)	Your own access token used for authentication to the API
before	Returns user ids less than this id
limit	Limits the number of friends returned

https://api.venmo.com/v1/users/:user_id/friends?access_token=<access_token>

Resource Information

id	The id of a user.
first_name	The user's first name.
last_name	The user's last name.
display_name	The best name to display, usually the first and last name together or a business name.
username	The user's username.
date_joined	The date the user joined Venmo.
profile_picture_url	A URL to the user's profile picture.
about	The user's bio.
email	The user's email, if the access token has access_email scope, otherwise is null.
phone	The user's phone number, if the access token has access_phone scope, otherwise is null.
is_friend	Boolean designating whether the authorized user is friends with this user. This will be 'null' if the authorized user is looking themselves up.
friends_count	The number of friends the user has on Venmo.